Lena Dunham Bio | Wiki
Lena Dunham is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is known as the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls, for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Lena also directed several episodes of Girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing Comedy Series.
In 2013, she became included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Lena released her first book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She “Learned” in 2014. In 2015, along with Girls showrunner Jenni Konner, she created the publication Lenny Letter, a feminist online newsletter. The publication ran for three years before folding in late 2018
Lena Dunham Age
Lena was born May 13, 1986, in New York, New York, United States. She is 35 years old.
Lena Dunham Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 3 in (Approx. 1.6 m).
Lena Dunham Family
She was born and raised in New York City by her parents Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons. Lena’s father is a painter while her mother is an artist and photographer, and a member of The Pictures Generation. Her mother is known for her use of dolls and dollhouse furniture in her photographs of setup interior scenes.
She has a younger sibling, Cyrus, a 2014 graduate of Brown University, who appeared in Lena’s first film, Creative Nonfiction, and starred in her second film, Tiny Furniture. Lena’s father is Protestant of mostly English ancestry whereas her mother is Jewish. The Dunham family are cousins of the Tiffany family, prominent in the jewelry trade.
Lena Dunham Husband | Wedding
Lena is married to her husband English-Peruvian musician Luis Felber. The couple met after a mutual friend set them up on a blind date and started dating in January 2021. They celebrated their wedding in September 2021, in a Jewish ceremony at the Union Club in Soho. Lena’s nine bridesmaids included Taylor Swift, Tommy Dorfman, and Myha’la Herrold, and she wore three custom dresses by Christopher Kane throughout the day.
Lena Dunham Education
She first attended Friends Seminary before transferring in seventh grade to Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn. While there, Lena met Tiny Furniture actress and future Girls co-star, Jemima Kirke. As a teen, she also won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award. She attended The New School for a year before transferring to Oberlin College, where she graduated in 2008 with a degree in creative writing.
Lena Dunham Podcast
Lena serves as the host of the Women Of The Hour podcast. She miniseries about friendship, love, work, bodies, and more. She also co-hosts The C-Word podcast alongside Alissa Bennett. The two take you on a historical deep-dive into the life of a woman society dismissed by calling her mad, sad, or just plain bad.
Lena Dunham Girls | Movies
She is a star of the HBO television series Girls from 2012 to 2017, for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Lena also directed several episodes of Girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series.
Prior to Girls, she wrote, directed, and starred in the semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture, for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Her other movie appearances include:
2021 Genera+ion
2020 Industry
2018 Camping
2017 American Horror Story: Cult
2017 Travel Man
2015 The Simpsons
2015 Scandal
2014 Saturday Night Live
Lena Dunham Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift was among the nine Lena’s bridesmaids at her wedding. Others included Tommy Dorfman and Myha’la Herrold.
Lena Dunham Health
Lena was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder as a child. She continued to take a low dose of an anxiolytic (Klonopin) to relieve her anxiety until 2018. In April 2020, she celebrated two years of sobriety without any medical assistance.
Lena wrote an essay for Vogue about her decision to have a hysterectomy due to endometriosis in February 2018. In 2019, she revealed that she suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. In July 2020, she reported on Instagram about her experience with COVID-19.
Lena Dunham Tattoos
Lena has a Ferdinand inked on her upper arm inspired by the Children’s book, THE STORY OF FERDINAND. She has ink on her back in the honor of the famous restaurant in New York City. A skateboarding girl inked on her stomach was inspired by the first female skater, Laura Thornhill. She has a teardrop inked on her index finger of the left hand and another ink which reads HOLLYWOOD FOREVER written across her fingers. In total, she has more than 25 tattoos on her body.
Lena Dunham Books
In late 2012, Lena signed a $3.5 million deal with Random House to publish her first book. The book, an essay collection called Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”, became published in September 2014. It reached number two on The New York Times Best Seller list in October 2014. Since 2016, she has been working on a second book that will be published by Random House.
Lena Dunham Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Lena’s estimated net worth is $12 million.
Who Is Lena Dunham
Lena is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She became as the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls, for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards